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["Abes, Andi" <aabes@quarrytech.com>]

Dimitry,

Yes, you're right - 
it will probably work - but it will defeat the purpose 
of the extended ID.

Andi.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimitry Haskin [mailto:dhaskin@nexabit.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 4:12 PM
> To: David Charlap; mpls@UU.NET
> Cc: Abes, Andi
> Subject: RE: FW: I-D
> ACTION:draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-tunnel-applicability-01.t xt
> 
> 
> A small but not insignificant correction.
> 
> > > ...
> > > 1. For LSP's to be belong to the same session they need
> > >    to share the same egress point and tunnel ID.
> > >    If the exteneded tunnel ID is set to the Ingress IP 
> address, only
> > >    LSP's originating at the same ingress could ever belong to the
> > >    same session.
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> 
> There is nothing to prevent nor it is an error for LSPs originating at
> different ingress nodes to share the same extended tunnel ID 
> even if this ID
> happen to be set to an address of one of the ingress nodes.
> 
> Dimitry
>